It would be nice for the scripts to write a log file of user's interactions and command output for easier debugging.
The main problem with implementing this is that we're using Whiptail for the TUI. This limits the "obvious" ways for implementing logging:
- we cannot just pipe everything that is shown on stdout to a file because we don't want to log the TUI control symbols as well
- we could redirect all echos/printfs and all command output to a log file, but this is very error prone. It is very easy to forget a redirect, meaning the log files wouldn't have all the logs
- we could play around with file streams and somehow make it so that whiptail is only printed on screen, while echos and command output is printed to screen and to a file. I've tried this quickly but then whiptail didn't work as expected (didn't read options from the subscripts directory)
It would be nice for the scripts to write a log file of user's interactions and command output for easier debugging.
The main problem with implementing this is that we're using Whiptail for the TUI. This limits the "obvious" ways for implementing logging: